Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience: From Theory to Practice

Resilience is a biopsychosocial phenomenon-it encompasses personal, interpersonal, and community experiences. Innovative Approaches to Individual and Community Resilience reviews the current research and details differing levels and approaches to resilience. On a microlevel, this book specifies how to develop appropriate coping strategies, maintain cognitive flexibility, and identify, label, and share feelings before acting upon them. On a macrolevel, it defines and explores environmental resilience, social resilience, community resilience, and family resilience.  It focuses on the importance of family, community, and spiritual bonds, in order to share experiences and enhance posttraumatic healing.  The need to be firmly grounded in today, while learning from yesterday, in order to cope with the requirements of tomorrow is the primary emphasis of this book.   Explores aspects of resilience within the individual, community, and environmentOutlines critical factors that allow people to not just survive, but to thriveAddresses the crucial role of the family in the development of resilienceReflects upon the helping professional's need to achieve and maintain resilience INDICE: 1. Resilience Defined and Explored 2. Resilience: Research and Evaluated 3. Family Resilience: Coping with the Unexpected 4. Community Resilience: Baton Rouge--A Community in Crisis--Grieving and Moving Forward 5. Environmental Resilience 6. Achieving and Maintaining Individual Resilience 7. Becoming a Resilient Clinician 8. Promoting Resilience and Fostering Hope 9. Teaching Resilience 10. Conclusions

• ISBN: 978-0-12-803851-2
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 198
• Fecha Publicación: 17/07/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés